Jazz guitarist and composer Lee Heerspink ’04 teaches Survey of American Music and offers lessons in contemporary and jazz guitar in the Department of Music. He also teaches and directs the Hope ...

and historical aspects of jazz and contemporary music. The curriculum emphasizes collaboration, gaining instrumental fluency, performance, and developing innovative skills to pursue a wide variety of ...

Soweto Kinch is an award-winning saxophonist and MC, who is one of the most dynamic jazz musicians on the UK scene, having twice won MOBO awards as Best Jazz Act. He has presented BBC programmes ...

Initially influenced by Benny Goodman’s guitarist, Charlie Christian ... Metheny even called Hall “the father of modern jazz ...

The combination of inside and outside playing sounds both classic and modern ... of the power and beauty of jazz guitar. The track I chose features the guitarist Jim Hall, who was well known ...